Do you know of Fort Ridgely ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fort Ridgely. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Fort Ridgely.<1> Our sources for Fort Ridgely (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Fort Ridgely other than they indicate that Fort Ridgely would be found somewhere in Nicollet County, Minnesota. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1854 and closed in 1903. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fort Ridgely ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fort Ridgely: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fort Ridgely - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
More Orphans in Nicollet County ...Can you help? As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Nicollet County.
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